Laxative breakfast food.



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To all whom it may concern. a Be it known that I, THOMAS H. Ronmson, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city of London, in the county of Middlesex, in the. Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Laxative Breakfast Food, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in laxative breakfast food.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of cereal breakfast food having natural laxative properties and being prepared substantially ready for use by the customer.

A still further object of the device is the provision of a breakfast food es ecially adapted for persons having indigestion and ordinarily requiring the taking of purgative medicines and whereb the necessa natural laxative is furnishe with the foo obviating the necessity of resorting to the use of drugs.

A still further object is to provide a breakfast food that is wholesome and nutritious in its effects upon the human system being composed of a combination of previously cooked cereals, the same being easily d1- gested and having further medicinal properties furnishing the necessary laxative for not only the cereal itself, but also the entire meal accompanying the same.

With these general objects in view, the present inventlon consists in preparing a desirable cereal in a certain manner in its cooked state and then mixin the same with the cooked bran and to whic may be added suitable seasoning ingredients.

The preferred ingredients employed in compoundin the present food consists of first preparlng corn by steam cooking the same in uice which has been extracted from barley cooked and then dried an toasted, or dry cooked as desired, while sugar and salt are then preferably mixed therewith.

It is not desired to limit my invention to the use of the two cerealsmentioned, corn and bran, nor the employment of a liquid extracted from barley but these are herein specification of Letters Patent. Application filed dune 2?, 1917. Serial No. 17?;d12.

and 'then combining wheat bran. therewith which has been reviously steam Patented Apr. 2, acre.

. set forth as preferable while other cereals if desired and added by the user of the food to suit the taste, while other sweetening and seasoning mediums may be employed for a similar urpose if found desirable.

The ollowing percentages of ingredients have been found advantageous in compoundmg the present food for rendering the same ,sultably laxative and highly nutritive Corn 39%, bran 39%, barley extract or liquid 20%, sugar 1% and salt 1%. These ingredients are com ounded with the said relative percentages y weight, although thesame percentages by bulk may be advantageously employed.

It will be understood that the corn cooked as herein set-forth may be of any variety and may be suitably mealed if desired while bran such as wheat bran assists in furnishing the laxative as well as nutritive roperties to the .cereal and which is furt er assisted by the liquid extracted from another cereal such as barley and mixed as an ingredient of the compounded food.

What I claim as new is 1. A food comprisin corn steam cooked in juice extracted from arley and combined with another cooked grain ingredient.

2. A food compound formed 'by steam cooking corn in barley juice and then combinin therewith toasted cooked wheat bran.

3. 5 food formed by steam cookin corn in the extract from barley with sa t and sugar and mixing therewith toasted steam cooked wheat bran.

4. A food comprising corn 39%, bran 39%, liquid extracted from barley 20%, sugar 1% and salt 1%.

In testimony whereof, I have signed in the presence of the two undersigned wit-- 

